It was totally this, thanks!

I actually tried entering my password with caps lock on just in case, still didn’t work sadly

I encrypted it using Gnome Disks, haven’t had any problems with it for years until now

I tried mounting it normally with Dolphin on KDE Plasma, after it was giving me an error I tried unlocking it in terminal via sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 backups

Here’s the output of the command you sent: /dev/sda1: UUID="109ffa3d-6181-43cf-a813-fdd285386866" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="ac0402f1-01"

but I suspect that you will need to wipe the drive and set it up again while ensuring that the volume key is stored on the external drive itself.

Whenever I format a drive I just use Gnome Disks since it’s the easiest and it lets me encrypt it using LUKs as a option, I’ve never had an issue like this for years until now since whenever I’ve used Gnome Disks in the past it always lets me decrypt the drive on any other Linux machine

Hmm, what method did you use to back it up?

I used an app called “Pika Backups” , it shouldn’t effect LUKs at all tho and the backups themselves weren’t corrupted because it also lets me verify the integrity of the backup files which I did before distro hopping and I got no errors

That’s not true.

The tools someone has has nothing to do with difficulty.

No way you aren’t ragebaiting

you forgot the /s

out of all my years on the internet this is such a dumb take lmao

Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.

Emphasis on the “slowly”. It’s been four years!!

I unironically had a friend who hated Linux Mint for awhile because he believed for YEARS you always double click applications in the task bar like you would on your desktop. When he switched he was so furious how apps would crash and/or just not start until I told him “dude… just click it once”

I have no idea how this didn’t happen on Windows or how he never had something open up twice

Don’t ever tell them about that one quest in BOTW

Unironically, Ecosia has been working on a browser that’s currently in beta with a built in adblocker. Works really well!

my bad, I always assume not just because we’re on the topic of privacy but because of how Ecosia advertises itself as a privacy friendly alternative on their front page when it isn’t that at all that, much like the difference between apple.com/privacy and apple.com/legal/privacy

Your IP address and search terms are automatically shared with our search partners, Microsoft Bing or Google, when you search.

https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

Your search query, IP address and iirc fingerprint gets shown to Bing everytime you make a search, so it’s not private at all

He’s rightfully displaying his dominance

The article could have easily been just as absurd if it was about how people didn’t get the alert because the alerts were moved to a mastodon instance and people are upset because they don’t want to have to go through the trouble of picking a server. heh.

You can view mastodon posts without being forced to make an account. This use to be the case with Twitter before it was turned into X.

they should at the very least be as accessible as possible for people who help.

They’ve been doing this for as long as I can remember, the link in the amber alert led to a Twitter post that anyone could view. It wasn’t until musk recently making it so you have to make an account in order to see posts which makes me surprised this hasn’t been brought up sooner

Now, if Google loses, Firefox will likely head of enshitification.

The whole thing is FOSS. if the company goes over the community can still maintain it if they wish to

nah proton is perfectly fine